Haïnoa and Islay are sold and gone!

We advertised them on leboncoin (French site a bit like ebay but you collect the things you buy), and really quickly someone responded. We made an appointment for him to come and see them - and were a little surprised when he turned up with a trailer!
He saw them, loved them and bought them...
We had a bit of fun getting Haïnoa in to the trailer, I was intending to spend some time habituating them to going in and out of our trailer before we had to load them for someone else. After minor setback where Haïnoa ploughed the poor guy through the cow poo on a rope then broke free, I recaptured her and we got her in the trailer quite easily (we did have to cut a bit of fence to pop her out in a convenient place, but all good).
She wasn’t very calm on arriving at her new home apparently and charged the guy, but sure she will settle down quickly!

Little bit sad to see them go but a relief also that it went relatively smoothly and that all the remaining animals will now have plenty of grass.

Fabien very bravely in the van with them

... and they are off!

Their new home is near Biarritz, we may visit one day - it is near a mini railway I would like to go on. The new owner is very friendly and nice, he has a gardening business and is planning on expanding in to conservation grazing with the highlands, I think he was intending to use castrated males for that - there are various people who do it in the center of France apparently.

We still have Bear (Islay's calf), we cannot catch him at the moment but are working on that. We will either sell or eat him depending whether we find a buyer or not.